66 Quotes by Rene Denfeld

The moon, B had noticed, awakened the dawn, and so the two – like pale cousins – never saw each other. Even on the most hopeful of days the moon could only peep, from a distant sky, at the sun.

After the economy collapsed following the mill closure, the townspeople apparently tried to find other ways to make money. The two-block main street has boarded-up signs for the Bead Store Emporium and Nature’s Gifts. She has come to recognize bead stores as indicators of economic doom.

Everyone was harmless until you knew better.

Even monsters need a person who truly wants to listen – to hear – so that someday we might find the words that are more than boxes.

The guards hate the priest. To them, men like the priest paper the sky with romantic tissue-paper legends, but down here below the earth, in this enchanted place, we know life cannot be contained on a slogan or a prayer tablet. We know that kindness rules with the fist and chains rule with a turn to the sky, that all humans require penance and without it we all seek punishment, over and over again, until the body and mind are satisfied and we die.

Time is measured in meaning.

Everything was sacred when nothing was taken for granted, she thinks ruefully.

The look in her eyes is of a person who drank from the end of a gun barrel and found it delicious.

It is meaning that drives most people forward into time, and it is meaning that reminds them of the past, so they know where they are in the universe.